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Darja Betocchi: Analogies between S. Kosovel and C. Rebora …Rebora’s poetry deals with all these themes, revealing, at times, a strikingsimilarity with certain motifs in the poetry of Srečko Kosovel. Despite the factthat a stylistic analysis also confirms the thesis about Rebora’s expressionism,there is insufficient evidence to show that Rebora – along with other “vociani”poets – was familiar with German expressionism. This, on the contrary, cannotbe said of Kosovel.The lack of influence of German expressionists on the Italian “vociani” maybe explained first by the simultaneous appearance of the “vociani” poets andthe German expressionists on the literary scene; and second, by scant knowledgeof contemporary German literature among Italian writers at the time.Any possibility of German literature influencing the “vociani” poets shouldthus be excluded.To conclude: expressionism as a literary movement proper did not existin Italy. There were, however, decidedly expressionist elements in the workof certain authors. The surprising analogies observed between German andSlovenian expressionism can, on the other hand, be explained by a generalawareness of the cultural-historical crisis of Western civilization of the time.261